Compact island
Artwork, a spectrum and up to three lyric lines, right under the notch.
Free for macOS · Open source
lyrics, livein your notch.
Ririku shows what's playing, with line-by-line synced lyrics, right under your MacBook's notch. Plus pages of widgets you arrange yourself.
Ririku — リリク
Ririku, from the Japanese リリク for “lyric”, turns the quiet strip around your notch into a tiny stage: the song you're playing, every line as it's sung, and the small tools you reach for all day.
01 — Features
the notch, in motion
Music in the compact island, and pages of widgets one hover away. These are the author's pages; yours are up to you.
Compact island
Artwork, a spectrum and up to three lyric lines, right under the notch.
Music panel
Hover or click to expand: track, seek bar, play, pause and skip.
System
Processor, memory and disk, with battery and the clock beside them.
Focus
Pomodoro, a countdown and a note, one tab away.
Calendar & Shortcuts
Your day and your Shortcuts on a page of your own.
Tray & AirDrop
Keep files at hand, and send them with AirDrop.
Plays along with
- YouTube Music
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- LRCLIB
- Chrome
- Brave
- Edge
- Arc
- Vivaldi
- Opera
02 — Lyrics
every line,right on time.
Lyrics are found on LRCLIB by title, artist and duration, then cached on your Mac. Prefer the video's captions, pick another version, nudge the timing per song, or import your own .lrc file.
Japanese-friendly by design: when a file pairs Japanese with romaji, Ririku can show only the Japanese. On macOS 15, each line can be translated on your Mac, right under the active one.
ノッチの下で
Ririku Demo · YouTube Music
1:023:32
03 — Widgets
your notch, your pages.
Arrange pages of widgets in Setup → Layout, with a live preview. Each widget is small or wide, and a page can hold a whole tool. This is the layout Ririku starts with.
01
Home
02
System
03
Focus
04
Tools
05
Tray
20 widgets and tools
Everything runs on your Mac. Widgets that need a permission ask only when you add them.
- 01
Music
Lyrics, seek, controls
- 02
System
CPU, memory, disk
- 03
Network
Upload and download speed
- 04
Battery
Charge and power source
- 05
Clock
Time and date
- 06
Pomodoro
Focus and break cycles
- 07
Countdown
Timers that keep time
- 08
Stopwatch
Laps included
- 09
Notes
A quick scratchpad
- 10
Counter
Tap to count
- 11
Days left
Until the day that matters
- 12
Water
Glasses today
- 13
Apps
Launch your favourites
- 14
Shortcuts
Run any Shortcut
- 15
Bookmarks
Open in your browser
- 16Permission
Calendar
Read-only, asks first
- 17Permission
Camera mirror
Only while visible
- 18
Tray
Files and AirDrop
- 19Opt-in
Clipboard
History, off until you turn it on
- 20macOS 15
Translate
On device
04 — Setup
set up,
page by page.
Settings stay out of the panel. Everything lives in Setup, one page per area.
Scroll11 pages
05 — Privacy
no account. no telemetry. no paywall.
- 01
Lyrics lookups
Only the title, artist and duration go to LRCLIB, and lyrics are cached on your Mac.
- 02
The extension
Runs only on YouTube and YouTube Music, and reads the player, never cookies or history.
- 03
Translation
Happens on your Mac with the system Translation framework.
- 04
Permissions
Calendar and camera ask only when you add those widgets. Clipboard history starts off.
- 05
Open source
MIT licensed. Every line is on GitHub to read, fork and improve.
- 06
No audio, no video
Ririku never downloads what you play. It just sings along.
06 — Install
up and runningin three steps.
- macOS
- 14 Sonoma or later. Translate needs 15 Sequoia.
- Mac
- Apple silicon. A MacBook with a notch is recommended.
- Browser
- Chrome, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Chromium or Arc.
- Sites
- YouTube and YouTube Music.
- 1
Get the app
Download Ririku-0.4.0.zip from Releases, unzip it, and move Ririku.app to your Applications folder.
- 2
Allow it to open
Ririku is free and not notarized by Apple, so macOS asks first. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
- 3
Connect your browser
In Setup → Browser connection: Register, Show in Finder, then Load unpacked from your browser's extensions page with Developer mode on. Refresh your YouTube tab.
Play a song and hover over the notch.
Questions
Is Ririku really free?
Yes. It is free and open source under the MIT license, with no account, no premium tier and no paywall.
Why does macOS block the first launch?
Notarization needs a paid Apple developer account, so Ririku is signed ad hoc. Click Open Anyway in Privacy & Security once and macOS remembers it.
Does it work with Spotify or Apple Music?
Yes, as opt-in connections in Setup → Music source. They use macOS Automation and need no extension. Real-device validation is still in progress.
What if my lyrics are out of sync?
In Setup → Lyrics, adjust the offset for that song, or search for another lyrics version whose duration matches the player.
My Mac has no notch. Can I still use it?
Ririku uses the main screen on displays without a notch. It works, but that setup is not fully tested yet.
Safari or Firefox?
Not yet. The companion extension is for Chromium browsers; only Chrome is tested.